A contract in india isn't worth a lot, and until it is they will remain a 3rd world country. If someone makes a deal and it tourns out well (take the dabhol powerplant) the contract is ignored and people are shaken down for cash. The highway robbery in india will keep it down for as long as it goes on.
Only if antigravity was close in price or CHEAPER than an plane engine. We COULD probably do the work and create fusion as an energy source, but it might not be cost effective.
You sir are WRONG! I am a enron alumni. No enron employee ever to my knowlege was ever asked to sign an agrement stating not they would not sell any enron stock.
What I believe you are talking about in a half@ssed manner is the employee 401k. The companies matching money (i.e. the free stuff they gave you) was in the form of company stock which you were obligated to not sell until you left the firm or turned 50.
Urm, actualy enron told california's legislature while proposing the bill that they way they were going to "deregulate" energy didn't make sense and was going to get them in trouble. The system that california set up from the begining was known by many people would create problems.
It comes from fosil fuels these days for MOST designs. There is a hydrogen reformer that converts hydrocarbons into hydrogen. The question is are these located in the cars or at fueling stations. People havn't decided either way.
I've come dam close to buying a fuel cell and turning it into a business. But the comercial units that have been in operation that are buyable, generate 200kw of power and weight 9,00 pounds and cost about $800,000. Plus the goverment grants that range between $200,000 to $1,00,000 each for buting them.
Margin energy... All of these cars would take a HUGE load off the electric grid and would provide a lot of marginal surplus ability to create power. It would provide for a lot of suplus electric generation without having to build new power plants.
Once you reach the ownership threashold, you have to file with the sec. HOWEVER, you can ask for them (the sec) not to disclose that filing to the public for a while. Buffet has been using that "loophole" a lot harder than anyone else anywhere. So, dear old warren can buy a lot of the company and NOT tell anyone about it.
The problem with a "hostile" takeover isn't quite so much being sued by the board, but the board taking action to "defend" the company. Many times that involves issuing lots of new stock (called the posion pill) or taking action which might degrade the value fo the stock. Also, they can start to use the companies moeny to buy back shares to push the price up and make the acquirer pay a LOT more to get controll. Lawsuits come in once someone HAS controll and they take actions with the company that harm the other shareholders value. I've read securites law in a nutshell, have you?
American have been chasing the "china" market for well over a centruy. Business leaders have been dazled by the new markets china could hold but no one has ever yet managed to do amazing well there. Histroy is against the market being realized!
China has all of that, but misses one BIG part. A clear fair legal system where outcomes can be reasonably assured. Simple game theory will lead to the result that the lack of this will lead to a GREATLY diminished amount of wealth being generated. The oligarcy that runs the country and the lack of an independant judicary means that the generationof wealth will be forever hampered.
Meetins make money. Meeting are where new products and servics are launced, and venture capital flows. The sales guys sell the product so it can be MADE and the money is there to devolp new things. Meetings are oh so important.....
Meeting are about communication, and when an orginization stops communicating it dies. If finance, marketing, sales, and engineering arn't on the same page the company will fail.
There are a lot of HIGH costs besides the financial ones to manufacturing computer parts. A lot of very very toxic materials are needed, and china don't dispose of them in a afe manner.
China has a weak rule of law, and a goverment that has trouble effecting change. These two things will hold china back and I have no fear of american power diminishing until these two things are changed. China has a huge aids problem that is growing becaue their leaders are unable to face things. They've built the three gorges dam which could if it fails kill millions.
They won't even admit there is a problem, they can't and so they fester and grow. This and other decisions I fell will ensure that china will remain behind america because they will squander their wealth and advances.
I'm just a consultant ( like PHB advising consultant) and I know why. Heating the battery speeds up the chemical reactions that occur which generate power. The heat changes the chemestry of the battery a bit allowing you to get more power out of it.
The key phrase is "any property of Buckeye". If they own the cable modem their totaly in the clear for this section. Sometimes EULA's and reality take time to catchup.
Cut the 3rd world off from their waifer supplies (or anything else) and there will be a shot at big profits for SOMEONE. With that big pool of profits out there, someone will build a waifer plant to serve these customers.
I used to be an investment banker, Hell that someone could be me... Put a big pile of money out there someplace someone will take it. There is a lot of money int his world that could do something, and the koreans and chinese I'm sure would underwrite some industrial loans to get those plants into their countries.
Someone who codes something that does X is always allowed to work on similar projects. The rational behind this is that a coder would exhaust their career if anything they made once was unable to be used exactly or in a similar way.
Go look at mirosoft when they made office, they hired away all the programers from the leading companies and had them work on the same things that they had created for their previous company.
That, and it's been said but go get a FREAKIN lawyer!!!
If you REALLY cared not only would you vote but you would become politically INVOLVED!
I know my congressman, he knows me on sight and I get the chance to talk with him both socially and about issues I am concerned about. It isn't hard to get a few minutes of time with your elected officals. Try doing it
If you don't like your congressman or his opposition, go out and run for office yourself or support someone you do like who is running. By support I mean show up at their headquarters, go door to door, and put some time into the whole process.
If you sit back and do nothing you have no right to complain.
I've got a finance degree and have a nice job, doing "knowlege work" i.e. management conslting. The majority of people don't do much math beyond addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in their daily lives. It is great to know things, but the AVERAGE person can function quite well without doing much math at all in a day.
THe CEO is paid os much money because they make decisions about what TYPES of things the company will do and hence what capital goods investment flows towards. The CEO who said 10 years ago lets invest in the worlds largest most efficent floppy disk manufacturing plant would have destroyed a lot of economic value.
You pay a ceo to make sure the strategy of a company is right which means goods and services society VALUES are created and profit gets generated. But the wrong capital equipment and it may only be good for scrap metal.
Why would the ceo care about productivity unless they were rewarded for it? If not salary they will get perks in other ways. Being a ceo is a HARD job, that requires a LOT of thought work that few are able to do well at. Not everyone can be a rocket scientist and not everyone can be a CEO acept it. Each person will rise to the level of their compentancy if given a chance and desire.
Not just the cost of equipment, but the POWER. Unless you use the current us classified seperation system you turn uranium into a gas by mixing it with florine and difuse it across a GREAT many membraines. The plant in ohio that used to do this had it's OWN 200MW poer plant to run itself. The cost is huge for weapons grade materials and it is very hard to create. Natural uranium sells for about $10 a pound if your intrested. Ahh the joys of working at enron and being paid to learn about nuclear weapons.
The real question is why the heck do you want to give this kid "Subservie" gifts? Just give cash and they'll do what they want with it.
The best kollege gift I've ever seen is a box of spices (all the biggies) and a bunch of notecards with recipies. Spices go a LONG way in help self made food taste better.
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A contract in india isn't worth a lot, and until it is they will remain a 3rd world country. If someone makes a deal and it tourns out well (take the dabhol powerplant) the contract is ignored and people are shaken down for cash. The highway robbery in india will keep it down for as long as it goes on.
Only if antigravity was close in price or CHEAPER than an plane engine. We COULD probably do the work and create fusion as an energy source, but it might not be cost effective.
R U a troll? Seriously... you must be.
The manhole cover is a circle because any other shape would have a way for the cover to fall through the hole.
You sir are WRONG! I am a enron alumni. No enron employee ever to my knowlege was ever asked to sign an agrement stating not they would not sell any enron stock.
What I believe you are talking about in a half@ssed manner is the employee 401k. The companies matching money (i.e. the free stuff they gave you) was in the form of company stock which you were obligated to not sell until you left the firm or turned 50.
Urm, actualy enron told california's legislature while proposing the bill that they way they were going to "deregulate" energy didn't make sense and was going to get them in trouble. The system that california set up from the begining was known by many people would create problems.
It comes from fosil fuels these days for MOST designs. There is a hydrogen reformer that converts hydrocarbons into hydrogen. The question is are these located in the cars or at fueling stations. People havn't decided either way.
I've come dam close to buying a fuel cell and turning it into a business. But the comercial units that have been in operation that are buyable, generate 200kw of power and weight 9,00 pounds and cost about $800,000. Plus the goverment grants that range between $200,000 to $1,00,000 each for buting them.
Margin energy... All of these cars would take a HUGE load off the electric grid and would provide a lot of marginal surplus ability to create power. It would provide for a lot of suplus electric generation without having to build new power plants.
Once you reach the ownership threashold, you have to file with the sec. HOWEVER, you can ask for them (the sec) not to disclose that filing to the public for a while. Buffet has been using that "loophole" a lot harder than anyone else anywhere. So, dear old warren can buy a lot of the company and NOT tell anyone about it.
The problem with a "hostile" takeover isn't quite so much being sued by the board, but the board taking action to "defend" the company. Many times that involves issuing lots of new stock (called the posion pill) or taking action which might degrade the value fo the stock. Also, they can start to use the companies moeny to buy back shares to push the price up and make the acquirer pay a LOT more to get controll.
Lawsuits come in once someone HAS controll and they take actions with the company that harm the other shareholders value.
I've read securites law in a nutshell, have you?
American have been chasing the "china" market for well over a centruy. Business leaders have been dazled by the new markets china could hold but no one has ever yet managed to do amazing well there. Histroy is against the market being realized!
China has all of that, but misses one BIG part. A clear fair legal system where outcomes can be reasonably assured. Simple game theory will lead to the result that the lack of this will lead to a GREATLY diminished amount of wealth being generated. The oligarcy that runs the country and the lack of an independant judicary means that the generationof wealth will be forever hampered.
Meetins make money. Meeting are where new products and servics are launced, and venture capital flows. The sales guys sell the product so it can be MADE and the money is there to devolp new things. Meetings are oh so important.....
Meeting are about communication, and when an orginization stops communicating it dies. If finance, marketing, sales, and engineering arn't on the same page the company will fail.
There are a lot of HIGH costs besides the financial ones to manufacturing computer parts. A lot of very very toxic materials are needed, and china don't dispose of them in a afe manner.
China has a weak rule of law, and a goverment that has trouble effecting change. These two things will hold china back and I have no fear of american power diminishing until these two things are changed. China has a huge aids problem that is growing becaue their leaders are unable to face things. They've built the three gorges dam which could if it fails kill millions.
They won't even admit there is a problem, they can't and so they fester and grow. This and other decisions I fell will ensure that china will remain behind america because they will squander their wealth and advances.
I'm just a consultant ( like PHB advising consultant) and I know why. Heating the battery speeds up the chemical reactions that occur which generate power. The heat changes the chemestry of the battery a bit allowing you to get more power out of it.
The key phrase is "any property of Buckeye". If they own the cable modem their totaly in the clear for this section. Sometimes EULA's and reality take time to catchup.
Cut the 3rd world off from their waifer supplies (or anything else) and there will be a shot at big profits for SOMEONE. With that big pool of profits out there, someone will build a waifer plant to serve these customers.
I used to be an investment banker, Hell that someone could be me... Put a big pile of money out there someplace someone will take it. There is a lot of money int his world that could do something, and the koreans and chinese I'm sure would underwrite some industrial loans to get those plants into their countries.
Someone who codes something that does X is always allowed to work on similar projects. The rational behind this is that a coder would exhaust their career if anything they made once was unable to be used exactly or in a similar way.
Go look at mirosoft when they made office, they hired away all the programers from the leading companies and had them work on the same things that they had created for their previous company.
That, and it's been said but go get a FREAKIN lawyer!!!
If you REALLY cared not only would you vote but you would become politically INVOLVED!
I know my congressman, he knows me on sight and I get the chance to talk with him both socially and about issues I am concerned about. It isn't hard to get a few minutes of time with your elected officals. Try doing it
If you don't like your congressman or his opposition, go out and run for office yourself or support someone you do like who is running. By support I mean show up at their headquarters, go door to door, and put some time into the whole process.
If you sit back and do nothing you have no right to complain.
I've got a finance degree and have a nice job, doing "knowlege work" i.e. management conslting. The majority of people don't do much math beyond addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in their daily lives. It is great to know things, but the AVERAGE person can function quite well without doing much math at all in a day.
THe CEO is paid os much money because they make decisions about what TYPES of things the company will do and hence what capital goods investment flows towards. The CEO who said 10 years ago lets invest in the worlds largest most efficent floppy disk manufacturing plant would have destroyed a lot of economic value.
You pay a ceo to make sure the strategy of a company is right which means goods and services society VALUES are created and profit gets generated.
But the wrong capital equipment and it may only be good for scrap metal.
Why would the ceo care about productivity unless they were rewarded for it? If not salary they will get perks in other ways. Being a ceo is a HARD job, that requires a LOT of thought work that few are able to do well at. Not everyone can be a rocket scientist and not everyone can be a CEO acept it. Each person will rise to the level of their compentancy if given a chance and desire.
Not just the cost of equipment, but the POWER. Unless you use the current us classified seperation system you turn uranium into a gas by mixing it with florine and difuse it across a GREAT many membraines. The plant in ohio that used to do this had it's OWN 200MW poer plant to run itself. The cost is huge for weapons grade materials and it is very hard to create. Natural uranium sells for about $10 a pound if your intrested. Ahh the joys of working at enron and being paid to learn about nuclear weapons.
The real question is why the heck do you want to give this kid "Subservie" gifts? Just give cash and they'll do what they want with it.
The best kollege gift I've ever seen is a box of spices (all the biggies) and a bunch of notecards with recipies. Spices go a LONG way in help self made food taste better.